Several Mobile-Health companies are joining hands to create a clinician-facing platform for assuring data quality and patient identification in remote patient monitoring programs. This platform is called OpenMedReady.

OpenMedReady is a collaborative effort between technology and health leaders Philips, and Qualcomm Life, Arm, ForgeRock, along with healthcare startups Sparsa and US TrustedCare. It is aiming to enhance data from medical devices to enable more trustworthy data sourcing and consented patient-information sharing.

This concept isn’t entirely new to Qualcomm Life, whose 2net hub serves as a gateway to gather data from mHealth devices, 2net hub gathers data from devices without need for users inputs, so that the user doesn’t affect the quality of that information.

“Historically, doctors are unwilling to use remote patient data for clinical decision-making due in part to the concerns about identity management, consent, and data integrity,” James Mault, MD, FACS, senior vice president and chief medical officer at Qualcomm Life, said in a press release. “OpenMedReady combines connected sensors with modern smartphone capabilities to give doctors a cryptographic record of a patient’s identity, their device’s identity, and their consent. Based on data acquired remotely, it gives care teams the confidence they need to treat the patients.”

“...when research shows 87% of patients are unwilling to completely show all medical information due to privacy and security issues, it’s hard to establish a proper trust relationship among patients, doctors, telecare devices and digital services,” added Eve Maler, ForgeRock’s vice president of innovation and emerging technology. “The two unfavorable pieces in doing this are authenticated identity and consent management. The OpenMedReady framework promises a method for doing this in a way that lets valuable ecosystems grow.”

It is the concept aims to enable doctors and healthcare providers to continue care management once the patient leaves the hospital. Through mobile health devices and telehealth platforms, as well as improving care coordination for those with chronic conditions. OpenMedReady makes things easier for doctors to check their patients at home through this platform. OpenMedReady will use technology like fingerprint biometrics to add patient identity to the data stream and add device identity to make sure that the user and the device are properly identified and aligned.

“Making use of these abilities brings traceability and auditability to remote patient data, and enables securely binding that data with dynamic patient consent,” the companies said in their joint press release. “The framework is designed to readily implementable by telecare service providers and medical device vendors for improved clinical decision-making.”